Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-09-13
THE NEXT TO CROSS NEVADA.

The Reno Gazette states that the rail-
road survey now being made across Ne
vada is uuder the direction of the Chi.
cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Company.
And this is the road we want. 1t is
the only road headed this way from the
East that is likely to be of any great
benefit to Eastern and Central Nevada.
1t is striking out for an air line from
Chicago to San Francisco, and a bee line
between the points named would pass
directly through the heart Of Nevada.
Place a rule on the map. with one end
resting on Chicago and the other on San
Francisco, and trace out the line and see
where it will run. We need not med
die with the eastern end beyond Colo.
RADIO, for the c., B. & @. is already COM
pleted to Denver. Denver is about one
hundred miles south of q true line, but
d-ivergences will have to be made on &C.
count of trade and to secure practicable
passes and grades at some points. An
air line would pass nearly midway be-
tween Cheyenne and Denver, running a
little south of Salt Lake City and, en-.
tering Nevada, it would come within ten
miles of Hamilton and about thirty miles
of Eureka. Bearing in its general course
q little southwark to reach San Fran.
cisco, it would touch very close TO Bel.
mont and pass through the Sierra Ne
vada mou ntains either via Walker River
or the Owens River country. This is the
route that would help Nevada and is the
one that should be desired. The more
the merrier, and we could wish that the
whole State might be gridironed with
railroads, but as a matter OF fact We
have little faith in any of the talked OF
enterprises save the G. B. & O., which is
one of the strongest corporations in the
world. It's esource and credit are
practically unlimited. 1t could extend
its road from Denver to San Francisco in
three years, possibly less time. if it
should make the start. That it contem.
plates this extension is evidenced in the
surveys which it is making. All along
the line we have marked out in Colorado
it is making preliminary surveys, and
locating and grading passes in the mount
aims. The route at that end is via the
Tennessee Pass of the Rocky mountains,
down Eagle river to its junction with
Grand river, down Grand river to Green
river, thence along the line of the d. &
r. G. railroad to the vicinity of Provo,
Utah, say 100 miles south OF Salt
Lake. From that point west the route
through this State would be that already
indicated, Patterson Pass, south of Ham,
ilton, being the nearest pass to a direct
line though the Snake Range of mount
aims.
There is evidently something in the
wind with the D. & r. g., which looks
to a br~oad.guage through line to San
Francisco. We believe that the c., B.
& @. is behind it. Only a few months
ago the road was taken out of the hands
of the Receiver and the management
changed. d. Fl. Moffatt, President of
the First National Bank of Denver. and
one of the wealthiest men in Colorado,
is at the head of the new D. & r. G
management. A new section of two
hundred miles of d. & R. G. road is be-
ing built, SINCE the change, along the
Eagle and Grand rivers. One hundred
miles of it is already completed and in
operation, and the rest will be finished
before Winter sets in. There is one
singular circumstance in connection with
this piece of new road, which looks
ominous, and that is that while the
whole D. l. r. G. system is a narrow.
gauge this particular portion is being
constructed for a broad.gauge road. On
that portion completed the rails are laid
in a way to leave room for a third rail.
This is significant, in view of the fact
that the route is the same as that de-
sired by the c., B. & Q. for it's through
route to San Francisco.
The Colorado Midland (broad. gauge)
is another road which is building west.
ward on about the right parallel, but it
seems to be more of a local enterprise
than anything else. 1t doesn't start
anywhere nor end anywhere. Com.
mencing at Colorado Springs it rum to
Aspen, a mining camp, and thence to
Glenwood Springs, where there are coal
fields, at the intersection of the Eagle
and Grand rivers. This destination is
the only thing that gives any color to
the hope that it may drive on to the Pa
ci6c Coast, for any road from Denver to
San Francisco must follow down the